Mother Teresa Quotes

"God loves me.  I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number.  He has chosen me for a purpose.  I know it."  

"The fruit of Silence is Prayer.  The fruit of Prayer is Faith.  The fruit of Faith is Love.  The Fruit of Love is Service.  The fruit of Service is Peace."  

"God does not demand that I be successful.  God demands that I be faithful.  When facing God, results are not important.  Faithfulness is what is important."  

"Prayer is not asking.  Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at his disposition, and listening to his voice in the depths of our hearts."  

"I take the Lord at his word.  Faith is a gift of God.  Without it there would be no life."  

"My call was something between God and me.  What matters is that God calls each of us in a different way."  

"You have to be holy where you are - wherever God has put you."  

"Holiness is for every one of us as a simple duty - the acceptance of God with a smile, at all times, anywhere and everywhere."      

"Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor.  Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them."  

"If you were to die today, what would others say about you?  What was in you that was beautiful, that was Christlike?"

"I always begin my prayer in silence .. We need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters."

"Don't allow anything to interfere with your love for Jesus.  You belong to him.  Nothing can separate you from him.  He will be your joy, your  strength.. Remember, you have been created for great things."  

Many of these sayings were taken from a book of Mother Teresa's quotes called "Mother Teresa: Her Essential Wisdom."